Adam Yauch Of The Beastie Boys Has Passed Away
Well, this one's going to hurt like a piece of your childhood is getting ripped away. Adam "MCA" Yauch, one of the founding members of the Beastie Boys along with Mike D and Ad Rock, passed away away this morning at the age of 47. Global Grind reported the sad news and TMZ confirms that it's true.
In 2009, Adam told Beastie Boys fans in a video message that the group pressed the pause button their tour and new album, because doctors found a cancerous tumor left parotid gland and he needed to undergo treatment. Adam had surgery to remove the tumor and went through radiation treatment. Earlier this year, Adam said that the rumor going around that he was cancer free was not true. The Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame not too long, but Adam wasn't able to be there.
Adam is survived by his wife Dechen Wangdu and their 13-year-old daughter Tenzin Losel Yauc.
Rest in peace, MCA.
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My son's grew up listening to them. They were sad when I told them. My oldest used to do this cute little dance to Girls when he was little.
*cries copious tears*
I found out yesterday at work (Dlisted is blocked) and all of my fellow Besties had the day off, so everyone else was all 'Oh yeah, that was sad. Are we still on for that meeting at 2:00?'
NO! MCA is dead! Fuck that meeting!
I've been listening to Paul's Boutique/License to Ill/Ill Communications/Hello Nasty nonstop since yesterday. *cries again*
Evil - I love the shit out 'No Sleep to Brooklyn'.
Cookie Puss will always make me laugh my ass off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DOMxm0o12c
The video for 'Sabotage' is pretty much perfect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE&feature=list_related&playnext...
SeH? Get fucked with something rough and sandpapery. Seriously.
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It hurts because you let your black heart beat for an asshole who can't even send you a "P.S. I'm about to fuck a hole that doesn't belong to you" text before fucking said hole that doesn't belong to you.
RIP Adam. This is truly sad.
Paul's Boutique - best album by BB hands down. R.I.P MCA
Two words right now: hologram MCA
(too soon?)
This is sadness. Beastie Boys Ill communication was the back ground music for my stoner and heady days in the sun. So atmospheric and 3 so damn talented.
This is also interesting - could it all be simple?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/243171.php
::mourn::
Life is a crap shoot.
Was he a smoker? Just curious.
Why do the evil twins mother fucking America destroying Bush and Cheney still walk the earth while so many good people die young?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
This really bums me out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Y0cy-nvAg
My fave Beatie song!
i can only think that good people die like this to tell the rest of us to appreciate breath while we have it, do good, live well and, in the words of RuPaul, don't fuck it up.
that's seriously all i got today.
MTV is doing a special.
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God don't like ugly.
This makes me so sad. I met him at a Free Tibet Rally, when I was in college. I mentioned that on Facebook and my friend commented about how Adam just rolled up on a skateboard and started chatting with us. He was so down to earth.
He did a lot of good in his life and will be missed. My heart goes out to his family and friends.
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"We're there for the oddball, the rebel, the outcast, the geek!"
As far as the deaths of punk rock legends go, this is one of the saddest for me along with the deaths of Dennis Danell from Social Distortion in '02 and those of Joey, DeeDee and Johnny Ramone. I was lucky to see the Beastie Boys at the Voodoo Fest (the very last one before Katrina hit) and at the Long Beach Arena in 2004 with my then12 and 9-year-old daughters, they loved the show as much as I did. It was magnificent! I am in complete and utter disbelief at the death of somebody so talented, so young, and most of all such a kind human being who cared very deeply about human rights. He will be sorely missed; a thought which leaves me wondering why is it that people like Christopher Hitchens and MCA are gone from this world leaving us with such a huge void while the Kardassians and their ilk live on polluting our airwaves and corrupting the minds of young impressionable (albeit a little dumb) girls.
See you in another life Adam
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"How nice, to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
It's very complicated to cure cancer: Our body needs to renew cells all our lives, cancer is a mutation which leds to abnormal cell growth. Chemotherapy is supressing this, that's why the people are so poorly. If wanting to cure cancer one has to either supress the cell-renewal for a long time which will then lead to other diseases, or changing something genetically, which is quite impossible if the person is already alive. So maybe in (not so) far future we will really be living "brave new world" as all our wanted offspring will be produced in the lab to make sure they won't get cancer.
RIP MCA, such sad news...
I stay at home just like a hermit. I got the jammy but I don't got the permit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-tGGp4ZH2s&feature=related
R.I.P Adam...:( Love the Beasties. License To Ill is a badass album...
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I want you to get on them fat chubby knees and take muh manhood in to your sugarwalls!-Early Cuyler -Squidbillies-
This is very sad news. Yauch was a Zen Buddhist, so he most probably found peace before he left us. Thanks for the great music and great humanitarian work.
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson
Submitted by Mojo_Jojo on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 5:33pm.
I'm one of "those" people that think they don't want to find a cure for cancer. Some of the wealthiest people in the world have died or had someone they love, die from cancer. Steve jobs and robert Kraft's wife (owner of the Patriots and Gilette razor co) are the two that were most recent. Cancer doesn't give a shit if you're rich or poor, young or old. I really think the drug industry makes so much money off of cancer treatment they would be out billions if it wasn't so fatal and could be treated with an operation or some drugs. Millions upon millions have been donated for research but yet cancer is pretty much a death sentence. Something seems fishy about that to me. Cancer = BIG business.
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I personally think it's ridiculous. Any company that could find a cure for cancer would get rich off of it. And the follow-on companies as well.
So sad! I still listen to Beastie Boys on a regular basis- real talent.
RIP MCA.
Submitted by jelliebean: "... My best friend died of leukemia, RIP Susan, at 22, some years ago. Before she died, she was bald from the treatments and when we'd go to the mall in the small town we lived in. Her boyfriend would write in black marker on her head "Fuck You I have cancer" So whenever people would stare or say something stupid she would turn around for them to read the back of her head. It saved time."
I laughed with a lump in my throat.
So, so sad. RIP, Adam.
Salma, Don't think I didn't notice the Morrison avie! *muah*
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Submitted by WithinReason... on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 7:12pm.
This really hits home! His daughter... *cries*
♪ SABOTAGE! ♪
L♥VE Thanks Salma! ;P
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You're welcome, Within! ;-)
I meant to tell you that you tag line song, Maggie M'Gill prompted me to change my avie to Mr. Mojo Risin. Cheers!
i fucking hate this.
i really really do.
i want to post videos and write corny meaningful heartfelt memories and talk about the deep punk-funk white boy ballsiness and heart that was the Beastie Boys but i'm just too fucking tired.
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God don't like ugly.
This really hits home! His daughter... *cries*
♪ SABOTAGE! ♪
L♥VE Thanks Salma! ;P
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Submitted by TrashyWilma on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 6:24pm.
My friend's 35-year-old husband died from pancreatic cancer in a matter of months. Her health insurance (Cigna, which they paid for) refused a number of treatments because they were "experimental" and not approved. It was more convenient for him to die.
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I'm sorry to hear about your friend's husband. Pancreatic cancer is the biggest bitch around. My hubs works in the field and he always tells me that it's impossible to catch early. Once it's visible on an image, it's too late. If you are diagnosed and you survive it, you didn't have pancreatic cancer, but something else instead. I hate it and fear it the most.
I also think people overestimate what modern medicine is capable of. To be honest, not much. Yeah, there are a few vaccines here and there, maybe they can alleviate your pain or stop a few infections, but you're fooling yourself if you think man is capable of finding actual cures to severe illnesses. Most of the time, it's just a matter of letting nature run its course, for better or worse, and letting the body heal itself if nature will allow it. I think the best we can do is tip the odds in our favor by living as healthy as possible, not just by eating well, but behaving well (don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs, be discriminating when it comes to sexual partners). At least you can leave the world knowing you tried your best.
Heartbroken about this. Grew up listening to the Beasties. Saw them live in Philly with my brother back in college.
Submitted by SeH on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 6:26pm.
The Beastie Boys were overrated. Yeah, I said it.
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You're obviously a frigid stick in the mud. Sorry, but it's probably true.
The Beastie Boys were overrated. Yeah, I said it.
My friend's 35-year-old husband died from pancreatic cancer in a matter of months. Her health insurance (Cigna, which they paid for) refused a number of treatments because they were "experimental" and not approved. It was more convenient for him to die.
I agree Chola,
But what I mean is that money - if any - should go into prevention and cure - especially prevention because that's the easy part with smoking.
I think it was the year 2009 - 400 million dollars was spent on reseach just to prove (yet again!) that smoking is connected, in a very large part, to lung disease and cancer. Nothing done for prevention - or cure - just research linking it. Like we don't fucking know already. Research grants are 100% political and I hate it.
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They played "Hey Ladies" when they read the news, as I was driving home. Awww, man. :(
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"Two whores don't make a right"-- M.K.
"Any guy who values stick thin and young over smarts and personality isn't worth it and has NOTHING interesting to say anyway."-- Mrs. Kravitz
RIP Adam..I played your cassette in my 72 Mustang with a broken passenger door and no seat belts..good times.
Submitted by IrishFury on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 5:04pm.
We don't have to keep spending all that damn money on something preventable - and that we all ready know all about - when so many other conditions are so underfunded. I'm so tired of that shit.
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Don't even get me started on this. Like we need more research med $$ going into developing another BONER pill or something. Seriously.
Though regarding your smoking=lung cancer argument, the fact is, millions of people (esp young people) continue to smoke in spite of the overwhelming evidence that says If You Smoke You Will Die. That's why the money's still being spent. I know quite a bit of money goes into trying to figure out how to convince young people to stop fucking smoking like morons. Friends of mine who continue to smoke say "I won't die 'til I'm old, so it doesn't matter." My answer? It will when you're old!! Idiots.
And I'm not entirely beyond the argument that there's money in keeping a cancer cure off the market (just as I think there's a conspiracy in keeping obesity cures off the market too). BUT... I do know (from experience) that a cure for cancer is far more complex than we realize. One day, however, there will be an answer. And for centuries after that, we will look back on this time in history as one of the most cruel and inhumane eras of medicine when we actually irradiated and poisoned our own patients to try to get rid of cancer cells. Whatever happened to "first do no harm" anyway?
I'm just sayin'.
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I AM on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. -- Carlos Estevez
Rest in peace, MCA. :(
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"I prefer my pieces the same way I prefer my Slim Jims, long, lean and mute" --the incomparable MK
Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack ♥ ♥
And MK, thank you for posting a "Paul's Boutique" track :-)
Goddamn this SUCKS.
Love you Adam. Love the Beastie Boys.
Love License to Ill.
You're my favorite Beastie Boy. Hope you find some peace my friend.
Love you!!!!!!!!
Submitted by Lucifer_Sam on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 5:22pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u57d4_b_YgI
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"It's no mystery that ass has always been tits' greatest enemy. It's almost like a Muslim-Jewish thing, but with tits and ass." ~ Kenny Powers
I'm one of "those" people that think they don't want to find a cure for cancer. Some of the wealthiest people in the world have died or had someone they love, die from cancer. Steve jobs and robert Kraft's wife (owner of the Patriots and Gilette razor co) are the two that were most recent. Cancer doesn't give a shit if you're rich or poor, young or old. I really think the drug industry makes so much money off of cancer treatment they would be out billions if it wasn't so fatal and could be treated with an operation or some drugs. Millions upon millions have been donated for research but yet cancer is pretty much a death sentence. Something seems fishy about that to me. Cancer = BIG business.
BBoys are one of my all-time favorite groups. While "Licensed to Ill" put them on the map and had its place in its day, "Paul's Boutique" was a much more interesting,innovative album and is in my all time top 10 of everything. That album, to me, showed what they were/are capable of and is as good today as it was in '89.
RIP MCA
Oh come on!! Fucking cancer! RIP Adam. We'll miss you :(
Jack, nooooooooo! Remember the good times! :o(
*plays sepia-toned montage of you and me holding hands and skipping gaily through fields of dandelions*
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Submitted by Lucifer_Sam on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 5:10pm.
They are before my generation and I've never been a fan
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I gonna have to seriously rethink our relationship...
*cranks up Motorhead* \m/
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"It's no mystery that ass has always been tits' greatest enemy. It's almost like a Muslim-Jewish thing, but with tits and ass." ~ Kenny Powers
They are before my generation and I've never been a fan, but this made me sad. R.I.P.
RIP, Adam - and fuck yeah, where the hell is the research money? Oh, of course - some suit still doesn't have his own private jet.
Bizarrelife
I totally agree. HPV is causing a huge spurt in cancers for the neck up. And HPV is spread from skin to skin, not fluid to fluid so condoms are not a guarantee at all!
And not only is there no cure for ovarian cancer, there is not even a damn test for it which is why most womena are terminal by the time it's found.
Yet HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars are stil being used YEARLY on the links between tobacco and fucking lung cancer, respitory disease, heart attacks etc. Um, I think we got it! We don't have to keep spending all that damn money on something preventable - and that we all ready know all about - when so many other conditions are so underfunded. I'm so tired of that shit.
There are current studies on whether overeating leads to obesity, whether drug abuse affects the heart and on and on - and a new one I just read that showed music can help calm people before cosmetic surgery. Sweet maria!
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Fucking sucks.